Changing what the url / page name is

At the moment my site is not visible to the public.

I am about to lunch it but can not work out how.

It is all uploaded onto my server contained within the ZenCart folder that I downloaded.

I know I need to change the home page so that it is listed as index so that the public can see it but I'm unsure how to do this.

I'm also unsure about how I stop my site from showing Zen Cart in the URL address.

At the moment my site URL is: http://passionsignite.com.au/zen-car...eset-12112007/

I want it to be just: www.passionsignite.com.au

And for none of my pages to menssion the Zen Cart part in the URL.

How do I do this. I have spent weeks trying to get my website the way I like it and I'm a little concerned that I could stuff it up by changing something I shouldn't.

Can anyone help me?

Pleeeease!

Thank you all in advance.

You should have installed ZC to the root of your site, not to a folder called /zencart/ in order to not see /zencart/ in the URLs.

You'll have to re-install/move it.

If searchengines have indexed any of the site, you'll also need to set up redirects from old to new URLs as shown in... post #11 in http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showth...=150620&page=2

First off, take a FULL back up of your site, that means take back ups of all your folders AND your database

Then simply do a reinstall using your root folder as the installation folder, by that I mean your www.passionsignite.com.au folder, basically what you did was to upload the folder zen-cart-v1.3.8a-full-fileset-12112007/ instead of its contents

It's no big deal and easily fixed, there's several articles/FAQ about how to do this (namely doing backups and transferring sites to new servers/folders etc), I have a few of the better ones bookmarked but I'm not on my regular laptop seeing as I forgot the power cable (duh!!) so can't give you the links today, if you can't find the ones I am referring to send me a PM and I'll dig them out tomorrow when I get home

It's a lot easier than that. Backing everything up is a good idea, but the process is mostly just to move all the folders and files from the folder they're in now to the root (a few seconds in your FTP program) and edit both configure.php files to reflect the new path. You may have to run the Fix Cache utility. Instructions here:

https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/i...hp?article=122

If you simply move it, do ensure there's no broken links within the site.

I've seen sites linking from product pages in the /zencart/ folder to images in the form href="../images/someimage.jpg".

Once the site was moved, the .. had to be manually removed from those links.

I would think any relative link should work, but any absolute link http://www.yoursite.com/zencart/something would have to be changed.

I changed the session directory to: /home/passions/public_html/cache

Then I moved all the folders and files contained within the Zen Cart folder to: home/passions/public_html

I then changed the following files as said to do in the following link:

Quote:

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Originally Posted by stevesh

https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/i...hp?article=122

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However I could still not see my site using my normal address: www.passionsignite.com.au

So I installed the Fix Cache Key file but can not figure out how to run it. The info page only says Run It.

How do I do this?

You didn't update your configure.php files as per the instructions. This is confirmed by the "thanks for installing" message you get when visiting your site at the normal address: http://www.passionsignite.com.au/index.php

Silly me I didn't realize I had to put index.php on the end of my web address.

Ok I have the thank you for loading Zen cart page.

What do I do now?

I have been working on this site for well over 2 months and want to make sure I did this properly. I don't wont to loose my data.

As the 'thank you' page (and DrByte) says, you need to change the paths in your configure.php files to remove the subdirectory part.